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# سندبادنامه 406

English (machine translation) 406

- **Language:** English

### [406.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.406.1)

"Abandon their love, for love is a snare, / and truly they are nets for the heart of the enamored.  
When you contemplate the disposition within them, / no conjecture or comprehension can encompass it."  
"And women have deceit and cunning in such abundance that who could arrive at its full reckoning?  
Counting the grains of sand in the desert is easier than \[reckoning\] their guile:

## Linked texts (1)

- [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.406.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian

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